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[Jul 19, 2002, 09:31 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

It's not like MrsBlue and I live in the country or anything, but even the suburbs can be an adjustment for a life-long city boy. Last night I experienced my latest fish out of water moment when I opened a cabinet and noticed the vaguest sense of movement, like spots swimming before my eyes. I quickly realized this was some manner of infestation, and upon closer examination identified the infesters as itsy-bitsy spiders: it would seem this cabinet had served as an arachnid maternity ward. These little guys are practically translucent and not much larger than pinheads, but quite active already... they crawl about and spin itsy webs too fine for the naked eye to see, and as is the spider way, there are just plain a lot of them. I generally have a policy of peaceful coexistence with spiders, as they pay their way by fighting pestier pests, but this is too much, beyond just the normal creepy factor, there's food in this area, which makes it super-creepy. Now I'm faced with the prospect of playing the exterminator in Arachnophobia and there's only one image that repeatedly courses through my mind as I consider this... I'm the bad guy in Charlotte's Web. :(

Mail's still wonky (maybe it's so flaky at this point we should consider it wonky when it's working), so bluesnews@abydos.com continues to be the most reliable way to get in touch with us.

Talk about following a theme... today's playtime is not just on-topic, but also the most authentic web-based FPS I've ever seen.

Play Time:	Eight Legged Freaks High Voltage Spider Killing Game (Shockwave required). Thanks EddieMac. Now if we could only get a chunk of that huge advertising budget they're spending elsewhere.
Link of the Day:	The Wacky World of Japanese Ice Cream. Thanks EvilToast.
Stories of the Day:	New forms of TV advertising. Thanks Brian A. Thomas. TV pop-ups? Police Seek Drive-By Cow Killer. Thanks Melinn "Oh George... not the livestock!" Pentagon charge cards used for strip clubs. Thanks dbodine. Def Leppard show slated for Wal-Mart. Thanks Chris Johnson. Strippers stopped at border. Thanks Brann Mitchell. Another blow to the arts.
Auction of the Day:	NEW GAMECUBE SYSTEM, AND RESIDENT EVIL, ETC. Thanks Rob Anderson. Maybe you'll buy his system, but pass on the digital camera.
Wild Science:	Roll Up for the Floppy Television. Thanks SurlyBitch. GM's Billion-Dollar Bet. Thanks Zdim.
Weird Science:	With False Numbers, Data Crunchers Try to Mine the Truth (NY Times free registration required). Thanks j.c.f.
Image of the Day:	APOD 2002 July 19 - Counting Stars in the Infrared Sky. Thanks Zdim.

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LOL

Jul 19, 2002, 12:59

cepheid

Quite a difference from birds on the fire escape eh?




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